Bedroom planning help!

[Namechange1990]

Ok am really hoping that I might have missed a really logical solution here in my frazzled little brain. Due to lovely ex partner walking out I have now ended up with 6 children in a 3 bedroom house.... DD 18,16,5 and DS 14,4&1.

When we moved in here 16DD wasn't living here but has now moved home after not working out. Longe partitioned for dd18 (who helps largely with rent and childcare so I can work full time) and ds 14 is unable to share a room (partly due to SN partly due to fact it's a tiny box room). Soooo left with 2 double rooms currently me and 1 year old in 1 and other 2 in the other DD on sofa.

Please someone tell me there is a better solution love my DD but she is so untidy it's unreal living room stinks constantly she has no patience for the tiny ones and feels they shouldn't go in lounge as it's now "her room".

So far my only solution was to the other 2 in with me in a bunk and give her the 2nd room? But am I missing something. I can't go downstairs as 1 year old wakes up several times in the night.

And yes I know should have thought of this but didnt in a million years expect to have to move from where I was thank you the lovely ex

When you say the lounge is partitioned- do you mean a fully plastered stud wall (effectively giving you four bedrooms) or just partitioned with a bookcase/furniture or a curtain?
is there any scope to divide the 2 larger upstairs rooms or are they not big enough?

I’m a bit confused as to who is in which room, but would you be better off giving your room to whoever is in the sitting room, and you and the baby have the sitting room? And put time limits on using it after a certain time eg after 10 it becomes a quiet and dark bedroom?

Split the double (that bunk bed split?) for eldest DD's.
box room for eldest DS.
triple bunk the youngest in with you?

Browsing houses for sale I saw a 3 bed recently that was clearly set up for quite a few. Bunk in one room, single plus double/single over it bunk in another room, and a double with a toddler bed next to it in a 3rd room. You've got a genuine difficulty because of the age ranges but I'd be tempted to explore putting the 3 youngest in one room, you and the older girls in another, and rearranging the dining room so everyone has allocated space for stuff / work / whatever? Tough on the 18 yr old I agree though.

I'd have the 18 and 16 year old DD's sharing one double, two young ones sharing, and you and the 1 year old in the living room, with a view to getting the baby in with the two young ones at some point.

Or, three youngest in one room, leave 18 yo where she is (I'm guessing the 16 year old is on the sofa) and you share the other double with her, with a zero tolerance approach to mess!

I’d put the three youngest in one room - bunk bed and cot/toddler bed. You share with the older girls again a bunk bed and single bed arrangement. The living areas are communal for everyone, it’s a lot of people in a small space but it can’t be helped.